Privileges, Authorities, and Authorizations
Privileges enable users to create, delete, or access database resources. Authority levels provide a method of grouping privileges and higher-level database manager maintenance and utility operations. Together, these act to control access to the database manager and its database objects. Users can access only those objects for which they have the appropriate authorization, i.e., the required privilege or authority.
A user or group can have one or more of the following levels of authorization and privileges:
Administrative authority (SYSADM or DBADM) gives full privileges for a set of objects.
System authority (SYSCTRL or SYSMAINT) gives full privileges for managing the system but does not allow access ...
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